I hope that no one has a camper in the Rio Grand Valley now:

Charlestonsouthern wrote:
Silversand, you are right on the mark. One would think you have been through a hurricane before.

...you bet. hurricane Mitch (Honduras) for one. My place there went under 28 feet of sea water (it is gone of course).

I was in a minor Cat 1 also (near Tela, Honduras, several years previous). Where I had to wade through aligator and snake infested floodwater ~ 2 miles with backpack held over my head, up to an elevated highway, then make my way to the town, where I took refuge in a 3 story concrete hotel.

I was also in a major Nor-easter that hit Norfolk to Camden/Elizabeth City, and the OBX (we were in our expedition vehicle: 2500HD Silverado high clearance, with truck camper, with lots of weather instruments on-board). Driving through Moyock, we could see the white lines under the flood water covering the road.

The worst was Mitch (it was the 2nd deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, with an official death toll of 14,000 (but more realistically, the death toll was in the 19,000 to 25,000 range). Oh, it was a Cat 5 super-hurricane that destroyed concrete walled and roofed houses and businesses. I worked with the Honduras government, aid agencies and coordinated air shipments of aid into the worst parts of Honduras (the Mosquito Coast) using C130 military aircraft, and a large ocean-going cargo vessel (shipping to Puerto Lempira).